From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Uncle \Un"cle\, noun [OE. uncle, OF. oncle, uncle, F. oncle, fr. L. avunculus a maternal uncle, dim. of avus a grandfather; akin to Lith. avynas uncle, Goth. aw? grandmother, Icel. [=a]i great grandfather.]
1. The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.
2. A pawnbroker. [Slang] --Thackeray.
3. An eldery man; -- used chiefly as a kindly or familiar appellation, esp. (Southern U. S.) for a worthy old negro; as, ''Uncle Remus.'' [Colloq.]
Plain old uncle as he [Socrates] was, with his great ears, -- an immense talker. --Emerson. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{My uncle}, a pawnbroker. [Slang]
{Uncle Sam}, a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See {Uncle Sam}, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt [ant: {aunt}]
2: a source of help and advice and encouragement; "he played uncle to lonely students"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncle": aunt, auntie, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, father, first cousin, foster brother, frater, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, kid brother, mother, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son, stepbrother, stepsister, unc, uncs, uterine brother
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
UNCLE Unix Net for Computer security in Law Enforcement (org., USA, Unix), "U.N.C.L.E."
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